⚽ All the latest news on a day packed with six matches⚽ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail Daniel How do we feel about the penalty that wasn’t? I don’t really see how you can’t give it. Fatawu was in and Konsa launches into him, getting nowhere...
World Cup 2026: third-place table, who has qualified and who needs what?
With the group stage hurtling towards its end we look at who needs what to make the knockout phase Teams level on points are separated, in order, by head-to-head points; head-to-head goal difference; head-to-head goals scored; overall goal difference; overall goals scored; disciplinary points; Fifa ranking. Continue reading...
England’s gristly Ghana draw exposes limitations of Madueke and Gordon | Barney Ronay
Inverted wingers were unable to adjust their game, even when they kept running down the same dead end street After the high: the comedown. You could probably have seen this coming. If only that rush after half-time in Dallas, where England surged with such alluring creative energy, hadn’t been quite...
Returning England captain Stokes and McCullum clear the air after ‘slight blip’
Pair had long talk before training session at Trent Bridge Atkinson, Smith and Bashir also return to starting XI Ben Stokes returned to the England set-up on Tuesday following talks with Brendon McCullum before training. The past fortnight, McCullum said afterwards, was essentially a “blip” and they are still “very...
‘I’m back’: Ronaldo’s relief after double kickstarts Portugal World Cup push
41-year-old heavily criticised after DR Congo draw ‘It felt like I’d already retired from football,’ he adds Cristiano Ronaldo savoured the end of a “difficult, dark week” after scoring twice in Portugal’s 5-0 rout of Uzbekistan and becoming the first player to find the net in six World Cups. Ronaldo...
Could mountains be key to unlocking hydrogen’s potential?
Researchers assessed likelihood gas was produced during creation of Alps, Pyrenees and Baetic mountains Hydrogen gas is anticipated to play a central role in phasing out fossil fuels, particularly in industries that are proving more challenging to decarbonise, such as chemical production, shipping and steelmaking. But producing hydrogen synthetically is...
Scientists in Australia find ‘smoking gun’ evidence of world’s oldest meteorite strike
Curtin University researchers use innovative techniques to date three-billion-year-old impact crater in Western Australia’s Pilbara region A meteorite that struck Earth three billion years ago left behind a “smoking gun” – evidence of the world’s oldest impact crater in a remote part of Australia. Ancient rocks in Western Australia’s Pilbara...
Meta just launched its own-branded smart glasses for $299
Orders are now open for Meta Glasses, a new lineup launched in partnership with EssilorLuxottica and sold under Meta's own name for the first time. The AI-powered wearables carry over the core features from the earlier Ray-Ban and Oakley models but start at $299, undercutting the entry-level Ray-Ban Meta by...
Valve is working with Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to make SteamOS run on any PC hardware
SteamOS has spent most of its life as a closed ecosystem, optimized almost exclusively for Valve's own devices. That's beginning to change. The company recently updated its Arch Linux-based OS to broaden hardware compatibility, and the move is backed by active collaboration with some of the biggest names in the......
Microsoft is selling new 8GB Surface laptops that don’t qualify as Copilot+ PCs
The 8GB Surface Pro starts at $849, while the new Surface Laptop variant is priced at $949. Both are powered by the original Snapdragon X Plus SoC, include 256GB of storage, and are otherwise identical to the first-generation 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop. They are available now on......